Epic buys RealityCapture creator Capturing Reality
Photogrammetry app used for the Megascans library to be 'integrated into the UE4 ecosystem'. Prices cut.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
architectural visualization
Exlevel ships GrowFX 2.0
Long-awaited overhaul of the 3ds Max plant-generation plugin adds new Node Editor for authoring plants via visual programming.
Monday, March 8th, 2021
Download free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Blender
New Blender edition of 3d-io's popular 3ds Max plugin optimises UV packing of complex models.
Monday, March 1st, 2021
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.
Saturday, February 27th, 2021
Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create
Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1
Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Chaos rolls out Chaos Cosmos
New online library of architectural 3D models is optimised for V-Ray and Chaos Vantage. Free to users of selected versions of V-Ray 5.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Eye candy: Chaos Czech's new Corona Renderer showreel
See beautiful new work rendered in Corona, from photorealistic visualisations to animated shorts.
Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Pulze ships Post Manager 1.2
Arch viz workflow tool automates assembly of Photoshop files from elements rendered in V-Ray, Corona - and now FStormRender.
Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Download 8 free aerial sets of cutout photographic people
Get VIShopper's free cutout bird's-eye views of people for use in arch viz and CG work. Commercial use.
Sunday, February 7th, 2021
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the latest update to the all-purprose hard surface modelling toolkit.
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Trimble ships SketchUp 2021.0.1
Check out all the new features in the latest version of Trimble's architectural modeling software.
Monday, January 18th, 2021
BRIO's Ultra Render does path traced rendering in a browser
Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020